Label your feelings, rather than labeling people or situations.

From: EI
Learn to communicate your feeling correctly, miscommunication of our feelings is a lie.

So instead of truthfully expressing our feelings clearly and directly, we express the same emotions indirectly, either through our actions or our body language.

"Sometimes we actually outright lie about our feelings. When we start to hide our feelings, lie about them, or tell people only what we think they want to hear, we impede communication, distort reality, fight evolutionary intelligence and dishonor nature."

Label your feelings, rather than labeling people or situations.
A. Use three word sentences beginning with "I feel".
B. Start labeling feelings; stop labeling people & situations
• "I feel impatient." vs "This is ridiculous." I feel hurt and bitter". vs. "You are an insensitive jerk."
• "I feel afraid." vs. "You are driving like an idiot."

Col 3:9-10 (New International Version)
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.


Terence E Gray Sr.